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30.12 / 08:55

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30.12 / 08:55

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©2025/Project SyndicateThe author is professor of finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.Catch all the Business News, Market News, Breaking News Events and Latest News Updates on Live Mint.

30.12 / 08:55

markets COST UPS Cycling conductor Updates Apar Industries braces for a muted Q3; lower valuation is not enticing

Tariff uncertainty and elevated aluminium and copper prices have lengthened contracting cycles in these markets.Domestic demand remains supported by power transmission and distribution, renewables and railways. Cost pass-through clauses protect margins, but not timing—meaning profitability is preserved even as delayed order finalizations push deliveries towards the latter part of the year.For FY26, management has guided for around 10% volume growth in conductors, while treating ₹30,000 as a minimum Ebitda per tonne level over the cycle.

30.12 / 07:43

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AI and technology-led disruption, which naturally makes the hiring process more rigorous."This scrutiny has introduced new hurdles for candidates, including psychometric testing. Once reserved for the top rung, these assessments are now standard for middle management.Peer-level reviews are in too."Peer group evaluations are now done in seven out of 10 mandates at the middle and senior levels," says Pranshu Upadhyay, regional director at Michael Page India.

30.12 / 07:21

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quality control orders (QCOs) between mid-November and early December, even as it launched over 15 new standards in the same period. The number of new standards notified has risen to close to 50 after Saturday's update.The standards create a pipeline for future regulation as the standards can be converted into mandatory QCOs in future.Experts say the latest standards are designed to be flexibile.

30.12 / 07:21

markets Provident Booking security country donates Updates A wish list for 2026: Much can be done by the government as it confronts the challenges India faces

₹100 to the dollar.Former chief economic advisor Arvind Subramanian argued this week in the Indian Express that ₹100 per dollar is a worthy new-year resolution for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), not least because China and East Asia have kept their currencies cheap to exploit foreign markets: “The markets are trying to do a desirable job that policymakers have been unable or unwilling to do.”Indian companies are savvy enough to hedge their currency exposure.We should do more to help our most labour-intensive industries: ‘Make in India’ needs to be rebranded as ‘Hand-Make in India.’ A much-needed pen-stroke reform, says Laila Tyabji, founder of Dastkar, is to “simply remove GST on handlooms; it needlessly increases the paperwork and end price.”I buy handloom or hand-dyed cotton and walk 400 metres from my apartment to a tailor who adeptly makes shirts out of Kerala mundu material and even delicate jamdani that looks like candyfloss.Consider renaming Ease of Doing Business as a more truthful ‘unease of doing business,’ thus focusing on reducing the complexity of dealing with the government.It is wonderful, of course, that we can pay our taxes online almost as easily as buying a book off Amazon, but our tax system is still too complex and does little to widen the tax base. In fact, the last budget arguably narrowed it by raising the income threshold for income tax.In a country as unequal as ours, we need an inheritance tax.

30.12 / 06:35

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30.12 / 04:51

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Ambuja and Orient have outperformed the broad market index, with 18% and 15% CAGR, respectively, over the last five years. The proposed simplification of organizational structure across Adani’s cement companies should unlock further value for shareholders.The merger ratios approved by the Ambuja board will accord 328 shares of Ambuja Cements for every 100 ACC shares.

30.12 / 04:07

markets wellness Experts show rights Updates darts Investing in 2026: It is no different from the years gone by—but here’s advice for the New Year

Mint illustrated how stock picks by experts and well-known financial institutions did worse over the years than the average stock. You are literally better off throwing darts at a board.Bloomberg analysed annual US index projections over several decades from all well-known banks and Wall Street firms and found them to be off by an average of 15 percentage points—meaning they were not worth the paper they were written on.However, for this year, there is something that gives me a pointer to what may happen in Indian markets.

30.12 / 04:07

markets economy Updates The outlook for Chinese stocks and economy Hinges on the US

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30.12 / 04:07

markets Progressive show stage country testing Updates 2026 is a year of milestones. Do big numbers mean better lives for the average Indian?

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected] the year 2025 drew to a close, thousands of spectators braved Delhi’s foul air, made stagnant by the unyielding winter winds, to catch a glimpse of Lionel Messi. Not long back, it would have been a regular meet-and-greet for a legendary footballer.

30.12 / 04:07

markets UPS wellness Bitcoin show Updates Commentary Bitcoin won’t replace banks. It could become their quiet reserve asset.

About the author: Emir Phillips is an associate professor of finance at Lincoln University. His research on central banking and the political economy has appeared in the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Issues.Nearly 20 years after Satoshi Nakamoto debuted Bitcoin as the ultimate banking disrupter, banks are still here. Central banks are bigger than ever.

30.12 / 02:49

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